What is the Single Most Useful Thing This Place Has Given You?

[carter]

Originally posted by PADDY
Doesn't the world feel a closer, smaller, villagey community when you come on here.

Why yes it does!

And my vocabulary is getting larger.

Villagey...is that in the same dictionary that Scotrace uses?

 

[epr25]

I know this has been said over and over again but the fact of knowing that I am not the only one out there. In my corner of the wolrd there doesn't seem to be that many of us.
It's wonderful to have all the knowledge and kind people to back it up. I wish everyone in real life was as nice as people here.

 

[MaryDeluxe]

Some really rockin music

 

[Solid Citizen]

THE FL's BEST

People:

"Wildroot" :eusa_clap & "Havershaw" :eusa_clap

Threads:

"Howard Hughes Office" :eusa_clap

Solid Citizen

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Good times...and laughs with people I like.

Friends.

 

[VegasMike]

Well, being new, the most useful thing to me so far is knowing that I'm not alone in wanting to look nice, and having a love of fedoras.

And also like someone already said, the fact that I have a place to hang around that isn't full of name calling and flame wars. It's amazing that there is such a place on the internet at all. I'm very much looking forward to meeting everyone I can in person.

I've also gotten more respect for the era than ever before, to the point where I'm now trying to hide my electronics and redo my apartment...it's tough when you're terrible at finding antiques and such like me though, and you're on a budget..anyone wanna be a free interior designer?

 

[Marc Chevalier]

People:

"Wildroot" :eusa_clap & "Havershaw" :eusa_clap

Both of whom are long gone from here ... :whistling


.

 

[Nashoba]

Knowledge, comfort, and most of all friends.
It's been a good place to run on my bad days, and I nice place to wander on my sleepless nights.

 

[Vintage Betty]

New friends with good taste.

Vintage Betty

 

[ohairas]

Courage to just be me. And the comfort of knowing we have a great place to share our passions without being flamed, spammed or ignored.
Also the opportunity to learn more about other people and what makes them tick... even tho we all share common interests, we are all so different. It's so cool. Thank you everyone!
Nikki

 

[Dr Doran]

How to kill a man with a single flick of the wrist.

 

[Dr Doran]

Forbearance.

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That too ... I've learned to humor the self-important.

 

[carter]

Originally Posted by Marc Chevalier
Forbearance.

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Originally posted by Doran
That too ... I've learned to humor the self-important.

I third that emoticon.

 

[Mid-fogey]

Buncha' Stuff...

...The oft stated "I'm not the only one doing this." A renewed sense that there a lots of great people out there. Also, Matt's post on how to bash a fedora. I have a grey Borsalino that has a very high, narrow crown. It really gave me the Beldar Conehead look. I reworked it and it looks great.

 

[Diamondback]

I also forgot about, probably most important of all, the fact that FL is basically also a kind of "social traction therapy" for me, coming off years as a loner and before that a recluse. Thanks again, y'all...

 

[dostacos]

hang on it's a long one....th

When I first started my job I wore a suit tie and wing tip shoes.

It did not take long to have that start changing. First to go was the wing tips, I got tired of digging 20 minute casting plaster out of all the little holes.

next went the suit in favor of dress slacks and a sport coat. The plaster was next to impossible to get out of a dry clean only fabric.

Next the sport coat, since I was wearing a lab coat at work all the time it really was something of a wasted effort to put it on, walk from the car to the office take it off and not put it back on again until I went home.

next the nice pants would get snagged too easily so I went to dockers, or other similar pants.

Ties, well they get really torn up between putting them inside the shirt [like army WWII ] and what I had to do would also snag the crud out of them. one week I ruined 5 $100 ties, the good thing is I did not pay full price, the bad news is they were GOOD TIES. the final straw was a co-worker got a sleeve caught in one of our machines and we as a group refused to wear ties again. Had it been a tie she would have been choked to death and not just a broken arm.

That REALLY made the hospital administrator mad, he was a real dandy and thought EVERYBODY should dress like him regardless of our job. yeah nice suit on the loading dock, the fool wanted us to wear ties even after our industrial insurance carrier said ties were NOT to be worn by the prosthetic/orthotic department do to the potential serious hazard that ties were around our equipment. [we finally got him escorted out of the building NEVER to be allowed back!]

so for the last 15 years, I have been wearing knit shirts and khaki pants, and inexpensive shoes that would be easy to clean and no real loss when they were trashed.

my hobbies were such that those cloths were just fine [off roading] or a uniform for Scouting as an adult leader for 8 or 9 years.

What this place has given me is the desire to dress PROPERLY again and not just once or twice a year at Christmas or a wedding....

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Look who's back and in the Classifieds, our friend Havershaw. As I am hogging the computer my housemate patrick1987 asks that I answer for him: information on good hats.

 

[Gilbey]

Fine living and the appreciation of the golden era. It's all about sentimentality for which I am. Thanks FL.

 

[scotrace]

Villagey...is that in the same dictionary that Scotrace uses?

Sometimes one has to explore new word possibilities eh?

 

[carter]

Absolutely! That would be most...umhhh...Webstery...?